The Mina were a community of well-organized, enslaved Black people in Louisiana who spoke a common language, most likely a dialect of Ewe that may have been related to Fon.
[1] Though some historians include the Mina with enslaved Africans sold from Elmina on the Gold Coast, other historians believe they were Ewe people from the Bight of Benin.
[1] As part of how some Louisiana slave-holders managed enslaved people at the time, the maintenance of African linguistic–ethnic communities was tolerated and even encouraged.
[1] The Pointe Coupée Mina community arose following their enslavement and importation into Louisiana following 1782.
[3] Many Mina took part in the Pointe Coupée Slave Conspiracy of 1791.